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Tobacco Road is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Ford released in USA on 20 february 1941 with Charley Grapewin
Tobacco Road (1941)
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Add to a movie listThis article is about the film. For the novel, see Tobacco Road. For the play, see Tobacco Road.
Tobacco Road is a 1941 film directed by John Ford starring Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy Dana Andrews and Ward Bond. It was based on the novel of the same name by Erskine Caldwell, but the plot was rewritten for the film.
Synopsis
From Turner Classic Movies: "The downtrodden Lester family lives in rural Georgia alongside the old tobacco road, on once-prosperous farm land which is now fallow. The head of the family is Jeeter (Grapewin), a shiftless man who is always making grand plans but never following through with them. The other Lesters are Jeeter's hard-working wife Ada (Patterson); their daughter Ellie May (Tierney), who is a spinster at twenty-three; their high-strung son Dude (Tracy), who is obsessed by automobiles; and Jeeter's silent, browbeaten mother (Tilbury). The Lesters are constantly on the verge of starvation. One afternoon they are visited by Lov Bensey (Bond), who is married to Jeeter and Ada's daughter Pearl (who never appears in the film), the family attacks him and steals his bag of turnips.Actors
Charley Grapewin
(Jeeter Lester)
Marjorie Rambeau
(Sister Bessie Rice)
Gene Tierney
(Ellie May Lester)
Dana Andrews
(Capt. Tim Harmon)
William Tracy
(Dude Lester)
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